St. Louis Sheriff Alfred Montgomery was indicted Thursday on five federal felony charges — including four counts of witness retaliation and one count of witness tampering — less than two months after his first indictment on a federal misdemeanor civil rights charge.

The new charges stem from alleged actions in the weeks following Montgomery’s August indictment. That first case accused him of unlawfully detaining Tammy Ross, then the city’s acting jail director, after she denied him access to a rape victim he sought to interview.

Montgomery pleaded not guilty to all of the new charges. U.S. Magistrate Judge John Bodenhausen placed him on home confinement and electronic monitoring while the new case proceeds. Montgomery will be permitted to leave home only for medical appointments, court-a

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